"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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What brand was your first computer?

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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HP something... Long time ago... still got the RAM hanging around somewhere. I believe it is 128MB RAM... top of the notch then.
 

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amoka said:
HP something... Long time ago... still got the RAM hanging around somewhere. I believe it is 128MB RAM... top of the notch then.

My family's first computer was almost a Packard Bell but we ended up buying from some local builder.

4 MB of RAM was standard but we paid the extra $160 to get 8 MB. Yes, RAM cost $40 per megabyte.

Thats $40,000 per gigabyte. WOW!
 

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First computer I had regular access to was a terminal on a DEC mainframe.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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First one I ever had was a custom built from a local computer store.
First one in the US was a Dell, and it will be my last Dell as well.
 

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synergy1 said:
Yup. this computer ran off huge 5 and a quarter disks. was pretty young when I had it.

The c64 costs $100 and that giant disk drive was $200, but you had to have it if you wanted to play more than the crappy cartridge games. And you could cut a V-shaped notch out of the side of the disk if you wanted to use both sides.
 

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Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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Rogue said:
Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer.

The Trash 80! When I was in elementary school, they would pull the smart kids out of class and let them play games on the Trash 80. They called this program "gifted." You had to be gifted to see what the hell was supposed to be going on in those games, which had graphics of about 4 pixels per square inch and involved maneuvering little rectangles around the screen while using a lot of imagination.
 

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Got a VIC-20 when i was 5, within a year we bought a c64. Upgraded a few years later to a commodore 128. a year later an XT, then a 80386sx16, DX25 then a BIG jump to a 80486DX66, Pentium 100, p133, p166, p200, p450, p667, p2 700, p3 1000, p4 1.6, p4 2.8, p4 3.02, p4 3.6, then it gets a little hazy cause i started going through computers like crazy, lotsa upgrading.

now I'm trying to be more social, so I have a quad core 3ghz I havent even plugged in after painting my room 4 months ago, and a dell mini9 I just use to surf a bit here and there.
 

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It was called a Delta Gold. It wasn't even an Apple IIc, but an Apple IIc compatible that my mom ordered off home shopping channel. We ended up sending it back for some reason. God, things have come a long way.
 

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White box of some kind. It had a Pentium 486 with a turbo button that didn't do anything and DOS with Windows 3.1 on top. It was awesome.
 

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200 mhz mmx technology or whatever it was. Don't remember the brand.

The 2nd computer I had which was a hewlett packard it lasted me for almost 10 years. I highly recommend HP they put out quality stuff. Then I got a dell which still works but it has crashed a bunch of times I don't think my HP ever did.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Commodore 64, 5 1/4 Floppy drive, and a 300 baud westinghouse modem connected to quantum link. I was "online" as early as 1983 :) Quantumlink was essentially a bulletin board though.
 

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I don't know what is was. I built it from spare parts. So a no name computer i guess. :eek: :yes: :cool:
 

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Dell Dimension 4100... I think...


We still use it. 192 MB ram..

Firefox opens up in about 10 minutes.

General start up takes around 40 minutes.

Of course we dont use it daily i already have my own computer and i cant complain!
 

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dra901 said:
Dell Dimension 4100... I think...


We still use it. 192 MB ram..

Firefox opens up in about 10 minutes.

General start up takes around 40 minutes.

Of course we dont use it daily i already have my own computer and i cant complain!
Your computer is overloaded for some reason. Start up shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. You can solve this by putting XP or Windows 2000 on it and turning off the memory draining services and applications. The less your computer has to do the faster it is.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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